Blog

Welcome to my blog. I write mostly about:

statistics, with a focus on Bayesian statistics, variational inference and theory.
typesetting documents with Quarto and alternatives.
programming, mostly in Python.

Investigating a conjecture from Stack Overflow 2/2

math

stack-overflow

A user on Stack Overflow proposes an interesting problem featuring modulos (and thus arithmetic) and sampling without replacement. I write a detailed mathematical analysis of the problem and answer the initial question.

Investigating a conjecture from Stack Overflow 1/2

math

stack-overflow

A user on Stack Overflow proposes an interesting problem featuring modulos (and thus arithmetic) and sampling without replacement. I attempt to understand it better by identifying easy cases and performing some simulations.

Some understanding for UMVUE (Uniformly Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator)

math

stackoverflow

The study of Uniformly Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimators (UMVUE) is an old-fashioned but interesting bit of statistical theory. In this post, I consider a very minimal toy-model with no UMVUE and show a family of estimators which are efficient at a single point in space and suboptimal everywhere else.

Pruning git local branches.

git

A short guide to the commands necessary to automatically prune unneeded local branches from git.

Connecting gitlab to redmine

Connecting gitlab to a redmine ticket-management server. Why? Because their ticket management is slightly better.

After action report: running a simple statistical experiment

statistics

data science

I wanted to test a simple statistical method so I ran a simulation-based experiment. This post gives an after action report of my priorities and process to validate my method.

Aligning a DICOM to a NIFTI, pixel-by-pixel

random

I have struggled at work to find how to align pixels. These pixels are particuarly vexing: they came from a DICOM file or a NIFTI file, which are both formats with awful documentation. If this helps a single person deal with this issue, then this post has reached its goal.

Installing spotify’s annoy on a Windows machine

python

Spotify has shared the annoy library for nearest-neighbor calculations. However, trying to install it on Windows can give cryptic errors if python does not have access to the latest C compiler. In this post, I tell you how to fix this issue.

Configuring a Quarto website

quarto

Setting up a Quarto website is not trivial. In this post, I discuss how to setup the _quarto.yml configuration file optimally.

Styling a Quarto blog.

quarto

github pages

Customizing a website is fun and interesting. Let’s learn how to tweak the appearance of a Quarto website to make it our own.

Don’t use Latex: Quarto is better!

typesetting

quarto

latex

Latex is the defacto standard typesetting tool in large fractions of the academic world, but can we do better? Now that Quarto is around, the answer is yes!

github pages setup for this website

quarto

github pages

Setting up a Quarto website is not trivial. Here is my setup to publish a single github repository using the www.gandi.net DNS.

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Welcome to my blog.
I write mostly about:

- statistics, with a focus on Bayesian statistics, variational inference and theory.
- typesetting documents with Quarto and alternatives.
- programming, mostly in Python.